US Attorney General William Barr has announced that the federal death penalty will be restored after a 16-year lapse and said the executions of five death-row inmates have been scheduled.
In a statement on Thursday, the US Department of Justice said steps are being taken to clear the way for the federal government to resume capital punishment, “bringing justice to victims of the most horrific crimes.”
The federal death penalty is rare compared to executions carried out by state governments, but US President Donald Trump is known to be a fan of the death penalty, suggesting last year that it should be brought back “into vogue.”
“The Justice Department upholds the rule of law – and we owe it to the victims and their families to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system,” Barr said in the statement.
The statement names five federal death-row individuals whose executions have been scheduled for December 2019 and January 2020, including Daniel Lewis Lee, a member of a white supremacist group who murdered a family of three, including an eight-year-old girl.
The federal government has not executed death-row inmate for 16 years – and Trump’s predecessor Barack Obama had ordered a broad review of capital punishment during his last term, including into issues and controversies surrounding the lethal injection.
Just days ago, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden – vice president under Obama – said he would scrap the federal death penalty if elected. Biden announced his new opposition to the death penalty citing 160 instances in which people have been executed but later exonerated.
The last federal execution took place in 2003 – and there are currently 62 people on federal death row, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
The DOJ statement said additional executions “will be scheduled at a later date.”
https://www.rt.com/usa/465063-barr-federal-death-penalty/
mynd44

That does not sound funny, the blacks are in big and serious shit

Their biased system is going to put more Black people to death instead of going after the KKK police.

Federal Death row convictions.
43.6% White
42% Black
11.3% Latino

panafrican:
Their biased system is going to put more Black people to death instead of going after the KKK police.

then the blacks should work on themselves and stop committing crimes that would Amass capital penalty.

mysticwarrior:
then the blacks should work on themselves and stop committing crimes that would Amass capital penalty.

Remember the black guy who was choked to death by NY police ? None of the police was indicted
Shameful and disgraceful.

panafrican:

Remember the black guy who was choked to death by NY police ? None of the police was indicted
Shameful and disgraceful.

yea and the accident was even captured on camera, young black males have been brutally kill by law enfforcement agents in the US all in the name of combating crime, that's extra judicial killing ( breaking the law to enforce the law is a crime).

baski92:
That does not sound funny, the blacks are in big and serious shit

Habaaa, blacks are being executed regularly mostly in Asia...it's no big deal.

galadima77:


Habaaa, blacks are being executed regularly mostly in Asia...it's no big deal.

lol its well

galadima77:


Habaaa, blacks are being executed regularly mostly in Asia...it's no big deal.

Westerners are also bring executed in Asia.
Read one of the latest.

Updated at 1021 GMT (1821 HKT) April 30, 2019


Second Canadian sentenced to death in China for drug smuggling
By Ben Westcott and Yong Xiong, CNN
Hong Kong (CNN) — A Canadian citizen has been sentenced to death in China for producing and trafficking a large amount of methamphetamine, a Chinese court announced Tuesday.

The verdict marks the second time a Canadian citizen has been sentenced to death on drug charges in China this year, amid escalating tensions between the two countries over the arrest of a Huawei executive.
According to a statement issued Tuesday by the Jiangmen Intermediate People's Court in Guangdong province, a total of 11 people were sentenced at the hearing, including one American and four Mexican citizens.

Only the Canadian, who name is translated as Fan Wei, and a Chinese national, Wu Ziping, received the death penalty.
The harsher sentence was due to their role in helping to organize the trafficking operation in March 2012, according to the court statement. In total, they were found to have trafficked 63 kilograms (139 pounds) of methamphetamine.

The American and Mexican citizens received either a suspended death sentence or life imprisonment. The statement noted all defendants could appeal the verdict within 10 days.
In January, Canadian national Robert Lloyd Schellenberg was also given a death sentence after a rapid retrial, a move which plunged relations between Canada and China to a new low.
The sentences come as two other Canadian men -- ex-diplomat Michael Kovrig and businessman Michael Spavor -- remain in detention in China on suspicion of espionage.
https://edition-m.cnn.com/2019/04/30/asia/canada-china-death-sentence-intl/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F